Published: Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 05:08 PM.

FORT WALTON BEACH – The man in black – and no, it wasn’t Johnny Cash – was arrested for resisting arrest, and a few things an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy found in his pockets.

The man, 40-year-old Ronnie Dewayne Smith of Fort Walton Beach, was spotted by a deputy riding a bicycle on Pocahontas Drive at about 7 p.m. He was dressed in all black and swerved into the oncoming traffic lane from time to time.

The deputy stopped Smith, who then motioned at the deputy “erratically and angrily,” the deputy wrote in the report. “Due to the totality of circumstances of being by myself, the large size of the suspect, and his obvious agitated state, I had a reasonable fear for my personal safety and needed to ensure he wasn’t armed,” the deputy wrote. Smith told the deputy he didn’t have any weapons.

Meanwhile, the deputy decided to pat down Smith, but Smith resisted and the deputy decided to cuff him. The deputy got one of the cuffs on but Smith allegedly resisted and the deputy put him up against a wall to finish the job.

When the deputy searched Smith he found a 6-inch “shank,” an improvised pointed weapon. He also found a glass pipe containing a white powder that tested positive for cocaine.

Smith was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, obstruction without violence, cocaine possession and drug equipment possession. He was also cited for operating a bicycle against the flow of traffic.

His plea date is March 4.

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FORT WALTON BEACH – The man in black – and no, it wasn’t Johnny Cash – was arrested for resisting arrest, and a few things an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy found in his pockets.

The man, 40-year-old Ronnie Dewayne Smith of Fort Walton Beach, was spotted by a deputy riding a bicycle on Pocahontas Drive at about 7 p.m. He was dressed in all black and swerved into the oncoming traffic lane from time to time.

The deputy stopped Smith, who then motioned at the deputy “erratically and angrily,” the deputy wrote in the report. “Due to the totality of circumstances of being by myself, the large size of the suspect, and his obvious agitated state, I had a reasonable fear for my personal safety and needed to ensure he wasn’t armed,” the deputy wrote. Smith told the deputy he didn’t have any weapons.

Meanwhile, the deputy decided to pat down Smith, but Smith resisted and the deputy decided to cuff him. The deputy got one of the cuffs on but Smith allegedly resisted and the deputy put him up against a wall to finish the job.

When the deputy searched Smith he found a 6-inch “shank,” an improvised pointed weapon. He also found a glass pipe containing a white powder that tested positive for cocaine.

Smith was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, obstruction without violence, cocaine possession and drug equipment possession. He was also cited for operating a bicycle against the flow of traffic.